Tobacco-bag mouth



0. U, JAHELKA.

TOBACCOBAG MOUTH.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-3, 1920.

Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

alto MA PATENT {)FFIQEQ OTTO U. JAHELKA. OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TOBACCO-BAG MOUTH.

Application filed January 3, 1920.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that T, Orro U. .rnzr,nl\, a citizen of Switzerland, having on July 29, 1919. taken out his first papers to become a citizen of the United States of America, (No. 9,184, District Court of U. S. for the District of Maryland) residing at WV. Hamilton, Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Bag Mouths, of which the following is a specification.

The objectof the invention is to provlde a dispensing mouth or outlet collar for bags and sacks such, for example, as those used to contain tobacco and from which the con tents are discharged, a little at a time in the filling of pipes, the forming of cigarettes and the like, the purpose being to construct a device of this kind which is adapted for interchangeable application successively to the bags or sacks in which the tobacco or similar material is placed upon the market as a means or" controlling the discharge with minimum of waste and maximum of facility so far as the operator is concerned without resort to the alternate loosening and tightening of the draw string or cord with which the mouths of receptacles of this type are ordinarily provided, and the manipulation of which necessitates the use of both hands or the mouth and one hand, it being common practice to grasp the tag which is usually attached to one loop of the draw string between the teeth while drawing upon the other loop to close the bag mouth; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a combination and construction of parts or" which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure l is side view of the dispensing mouth or collar applied. in the operative position to a bag or sack, a portion of the latter being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the mouth or collar taken on the plane indicated by the dotted line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. a is a transverse section on the plane indicated by the line H of Fig. 2.

The device consists essentially of a preferably elongated cap adapted to be pressed or otherwise formed from a sheet metal blank to produce a top plate 10 and a depending flange l1 contracted to produce a reduced neck 12 having an exterior groove Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented M r. l. 1921.

Serial No. 349,214.

13 below which the flange is enlarged or bulged as shown at lei. The upper wall of the groove 13 extends outward to form a shoulder 15 which is substantially parallel with the under surface of the top plate 10 to define therewith an intervening groove or guide 16 in which. is mounted the edges of a sliding cover 17 preferably having a knob or finger hold 18, said slide or cover serving as a closure for an outlet slot 19 formed preferably longitudinally with reference to and near one end of the cap plate 10.

The elongated, substantially elliptical plan of the cap serves to adapt it to perform the functions of a grip by which the attached bag or sack shown at 20 may be handled, and obviously a finger of the hand grasping the same may readily be employed by engagement with the knob or finger hold 18 to withdraw the slide to a greater or less extent and hold it in such withdrawn position while the required portion of the contents of the bag or sack is being discharged to fill a pipe or charge a cigarette paper, and when a suflicient quantity has been dis charged a reverse movement of the same finger of the hand grasping the cap will re turn the slide to its closedposition where its free edge will engage under or pass into underlapping relation with the lip 21 formed by the portion of the cap plate at the adjacent end of the discharge opening or slot 19.

It will be understood moreover that more or less frictional engagement of the walls bounding or defining the guide groove 16 with the outer and inner surfaces of the slide may be produced to insure the substantial retention of the slide in adjusted positions, either closed or open, and such frictional engagement may be increased from time to time as may be preferred by the operator or may be required to compensate for wear, by merely pinching toward each other the opposed walls of said guide represented respectively by the upper side of the neck 12 and the cap plate.

It will be seen that the slide is located near one end of the grip formed by the cap and when moved to permit the discharge of the contents of the bag is not interferred with in any way by the hand grasping the same. The attachment of the bag or sack to the cap is effected by the tightening and fastening of the draw string or cord 22 of the bag in the groove formed by the reduced neck portion of the device so that said cord and the sheath in Which it is fitted are housed within the groove and do not interfere with the proper graspoi the device by the hand of the operator.

What is claimed is:

An interchangeable dispensing mouth 01. cap for bags having a collar provided with a top plate and an intermediate reduced or neck portion forming an exterior circumferential groove of which. the upper side is spaced from the plane 01' said top plate to define aninterposed guide groove, said plate being provided at one end with an outlet opening, and a sliding closure fitted at its edges in said guide groove and frietionally engaged by the opposed Walls defining the same. V in testimony whereof I zulix my signature.

OTTO U. J AHELKA. 

